Samantha Isler and Sean Hayes are daughter and dad in new NBC comedy 'Sean Saves the World.' / Vivian Zink/NBC

by Gary Levin and Bill Keveney, USA TODAY

by Gary Levin and Bill Keveney, USA TODAY

NBC is continuing to hand out series orders for next season as the fourth-place network rebuilds its prime-time schedule.

In the latest round, the network Friday gave series orders to Ironside, Undateable and Chicago PD, a Chicago Fire spinoff from producer Dick Wolf. Late in the day, NBC also picked up dramas The Blacklist, The Night Shift and the comedy Welcome to the Family.

Community received a renewal, but the network canceled the sophomore Smash and two first-year comedies, The New Normal and Matthew Perry's Go On. Newsmagazine Rock Center will not return in the fall, either.

Earlier, the network picked up other series and also renewed comedy Parks and Recreation for a sixth season, but cancelled Whitney, 1600 Penn, Guys With Kids, Up All Night and Deception.

NBC will announce which of the new shows will kick off the fall season when the network reveals its schedule to advertisers Sunday.

A quick look at the dramas on tap:

- The Blacklist follows ex-government agent Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a fugitive who turns himself in to help catch a terrorist long thought to be dead. His one condition is he will only talk to Liz Keen (Megan Boone), a new FBI profiler. Diego Klattenhoff, Harry Lennix, Ryan Eggold and Ilfenesh Hadera also star.

- The Night Shift looks at the late-evening staff at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. The crew includes military vet T.C. Callahan (Merlin's Eoin Macken) who works with a team of irreverent doctors who are all business when lives are at stake. With a new manager more interested in cost-cutting than treating patients, the rule-flouting T.C. faces fresh challenges. The cast includes Ken Leung, Brendan Fehr, Freddy Rodriguez and Jill Flint.

- Ironside stars Blair Underwood as fearless cop Robert Ironside, who won't quit after having his spine shattered by a bullet. Based on the late-'60s drama, this Ironside investigates crime in New York from his wheelchair, joined by a team of handpicked specialists (Pablo Schreiber, Spencer Grammer and Neal Bledsoe).

- Chicago PD is a Chicago Fire spinoff from executive producer Dick Wolf. The series will follow two groups in District 21 of the Chicago Police Department, the uniformed cops on the beat and the Intelligence Unit that combats organized crime, drug trafficking and high-profile murders. Jason Beghe plays the head of the intelligence team and Jon Seda plays a detective.

- Believe, from producer J.J. Abrams, about an orphaned 10-year-old girl with unusual powers raised by a group that believes a jailed death-row inmate is her only protector. This marks the second new series for the Star Trek director's production banner. Fox ordered another sci-fi-tinged drama, Almost Human, on Wednesday.

- Crisis is an action-thriller starring Dermot Mulroney and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) about students at an elite Washington, D.C., high school who are taken hostage, as their "powerful parents are at the mercy of one vengeful mastermind," according to a network description.

New comedies:

- Welcome to the Family features Mike O'Malley and Mary McCormack as Dan and Karina Yoder, parents who have struggled their whole lives only to find out daughter Molly (Ella Rae Peck) is pregnant on the day of her high school graduation. The daddy is another student, Junior Hernandez (Joseph Haro), son of Miguel (Ricardo Chavira) and Lisette (Justina Machado). What follows is "a crash course in culture blending," according to the program description, as Molly and Junior decide they want to get married.

- Undateable, from Cougar Town and Scrubs executive producer Bill Lawrence, follows confident slacker Danny Beeman (Chris D'Elia), whose new roommate, Justin (Brent Morin), brings along a group of romantically challenged friends that Danny dubs "The Undateables." Danny, seeing himself as a player, decides to advise them in this comic look at the world of dating.

- Sean Saves the World marks the return to NBC of Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) who produces and stars in this series as a divorced gay dad who juggles a job, a teenage daughter and his overbearing mom (Linda Lavin).

- About a Boy, a remake of the 2002 Hugh Grant film about a man-child (New Girl's David Walton in the Grant role) whose carefree life is disrupted when a single mom (Minnie Driver) and her son move in next door. Jason Katims (Parenthood) produces.

- The Family Guide, a quirky comedy about a family enriched by divorce, starring J.K. Simmons as the dad who is blind and Parker Posey as the pipe-smoking arrested-development mom. Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) is an executive producer and provides the voice-over narration. Coincidence?